Word: election
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TWENTY years ago, Joe McGinnis explained to the nation how our presidents could be sold to us like so much soap. The same soap-peddlers who gave us President Richard Milhouse Nixon have now also given us President-elect George Herbert Walker Bush. They marketed the same product twice, and the nation bought it both times...
...connections betwen Bush and Nixon are sufficiently numerous to be distressing. Nixon himself was a close advisor to the Bush campaign, and the President-elect's aides proudly point to their party's elder crook as the one who gave direction to their campaign strategy. Among the first people President-elect George Bush contacted was none other than Tricky Dick. Former Nixon men, including Fred Malek and Dwight Chapin, played a part in Bush's campaign...
WASHINGTON--Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev will meet with President Reagan and President-elect George Bush next month, the White House announced yesterday...
Interviewed yesterday, Sen. Joseph Biden (D-Del.) pointed to "some of the moves taking place in the Soviet Union, and its affect on Europe in particular and the Third World in general," and said the New York meeting would give the president-elect "a significant opportunity...to take positive advantage" of them...
...Bush] has no mandate from the people to do anything with the presidency" Republican consultant John Sears said in a forum yesterday at the Kennedy School of Government. He said the president-elect made no proposals during his campaign on which the election could serve as a referendum...